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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook: Second Edition - Second Edition

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook: Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 is a complex messaging system. Windows PowerShell 3 can be used in conjunction with Exchange Server 2013 to automate and manage routine and complex tasks to save time, money, and eliminate errors.Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook: Second Edition offers more than 120 recipes and solutions to everyday problems and tasks encountered in the management and administration of Exchange Server. If you want to write scripts that help you create mailboxes, monitor server resources, and generate detailed reports, then this Cookbook is for you. This practical guide to Powershell and Exchange Server 2013 will help you automate and manage time-consuming and reoccurring tasks quickly and efficiently. Starting by going through key PowerShell concepts and the Exchange Management Shell, this book will get you automating tasks that used to take hours in no time.With practical recipes on the management of recipients and mailboxes as well as distribution groups and address lists, this book will save you countless hours on repetitive tasks. Diving deeper, you will then manage your mailbox database, client access, and your transport servers with simple but effective scripts.This book finishes with advanced recipes on Exchange Server problems such as server monitoring as well as maintaining high availability and security. If you want to control every aspect of Exchange Server 2013 and learn how to save time with PowerShell, then this cookbook is for you.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with messages in transport queues


Transport queues are a temporary storage location for messages that are in transit. Each mailbox server can have multiple queues at any given time depending on the destination of the message. In this recipe, we'll cover several methods that can be used to view queued messages, remove messages from queues, and more.

How to do it...

To view the transport queues that are currently in use on a specific server, use the Get-Queue cmdlet:

Get-Queue -Server tlex01

In this example, the transport queues on the tlex01 server will be returned. The output might look similar to the following:

In this example, there is one message awaiting retry due to a DNS resolution problem for the destination domain.

How it works...

When running the Get-Queue cmdlet, the queues displayed will vary depending on what types of messages are currently awaiting delivery. The following queue types are used on mailbox servers:

  • Submission queue: All messages received by a Mailbox server are...